The Combined Use of Airborne Remote Sensing Techniques within a GIS Environment for the Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Urban Areas: An Operational Application
The knowledge of the topographic features, the building properties, and the road infrastructure settings are relevant operational tasks for managing post-crisis events, restoration activities, and for supporting search and rescue operations. Within such a framework, airborne remote sensing tools hav...
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doaj-171e24d81d2e465fa12110af2c25fd5c2020-11-24T20:44:23ZengMDPI AGRemote Sensing2072-42922016-02-018214610.3390/rs8020146rs8020146The Combined Use of Airborne Remote Sensing Techniques within a GIS Environment for the Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Urban Areas: An Operational ApplicationAntonio Costanzo0Antonio Montuori1Juan Pablo Silva2Malvina Silvestri3Massimo Musacchio4Fawzi Doumaz5Salvatore Stramondo6Maria Fabrizia Buongiorno7Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Centro Nazionale Terremoti, Via P. Bucci Cubo 30c, 87036 Rende (CS), ItalyIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Centro Nazionale Terremoti, Via P. Bucci Cubo 30c, 87036 Rende (CS), ItalyComisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), Agencia de Recaudación de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (ARBA), Calle 45, 1900 La Plata, ArgentinaIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Centro Nazionale Terremoti, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Roma, ItalyIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Centro Nazionale Terremoti, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Roma, ItalyIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Centro Nazionale Terremoti, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Roma, ItalyIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Centro Nazionale Terremoti, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Roma, ItalyIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Centro Nazionale Terremoti, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Roma, ItalyThe knowledge of the topographic features, the building properties, and the road infrastructure settings are relevant operational tasks for managing post-crisis events, restoration activities, and for supporting search and rescue operations. Within such a framework, airborne remote sensing tools have demonstrated to be powerful instruments, whose joint use can provide meaningful analyses to support the risk assessment of urban environments. Based on this rationale, in this study, the operational benefits obtained by combining airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral measurements are shown. Terrain and surface digital models are gathered by using LiDAR data. Information about roads and roof materials are provided through the supervised classification of hyperspectral images. The objective is to combine such products within a geographic information system (GIS) providing value-added maps to be used for the seismic vulnerability assessment of urban environments. Experimental results are gathered for the city of Cosenza, Italy.http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/8/2/146hyperspectral imagesLiDARhistorical heritagesurban assessmentseismic environments |
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Antonio Costanzo Antonio Montuori Juan Pablo Silva Malvina Silvestri Massimo Musacchio Fawzi Doumaz Salvatore Stramondo Maria Fabrizia Buongiorno The Combined Use of Airborne Remote Sensing Techniques within a GIS Environment for the Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Urban Areas: An Operational Application Remote Sensing hyperspectral images LiDAR historical heritages urban assessment seismic environments |
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Antonio Costanzo Antonio Montuori Juan Pablo Silva Malvina Silvestri Massimo Musacchio Fawzi Doumaz Salvatore Stramondo Maria Fabrizia Buongiorno |
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The Combined Use of Airborne Remote Sensing Techniques within a GIS Environment for the Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Urban Areas: An Operational Application |
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The Combined Use of Airborne Remote Sensing Techniques within a GIS Environment for the Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Urban Areas: An Operational Application |
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The Combined Use of Airborne Remote Sensing Techniques within a GIS Environment for the Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Urban Areas: An Operational Application |
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The Combined Use of Airborne Remote Sensing Techniques within a GIS Environment for the Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Urban Areas: An Operational Application |
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The Combined Use of Airborne Remote Sensing Techniques within a GIS Environment for the Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Urban Areas: An Operational Application |
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combined use of airborne remote sensing techniques within a gis environment for the seismic vulnerability assessment of urban areas: an operational application |
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Remote Sensing |
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The knowledge of the topographic features, the building properties, and the road infrastructure settings are relevant operational tasks for managing post-crisis events, restoration activities, and for supporting search and rescue operations. Within such a framework, airborne remote sensing tools have demonstrated to be powerful instruments, whose joint use can provide meaningful analyses to support the risk assessment of urban environments. Based on this rationale, in this study, the operational benefits obtained by combining airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral measurements are shown. Terrain and surface digital models are gathered by using LiDAR data. Information about roads and roof materials are provided through the supervised classification of hyperspectral images. The objective is to combine such products within a geographic information system (GIS) providing value-added maps to be used for the seismic vulnerability assessment of urban environments. Experimental results are gathered for the city of Cosenza, Italy. |
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hyperspectral images LiDAR historical heritages urban assessment seismic environments |
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